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A provisional definition for the Cultural Last Mile
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Nishant Shah
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Dec 10, 2009
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In the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he re-purposes the 'last mile' which is a communications problem, to make a cultural argument about the role and imagination of technology in India, and the specific ways in which this problem features in talking about Internet Technologies in contemporary India.
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The Last Cultural Mile
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Change has come to all of us
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 24, 2010
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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Google,
Digital Natives,
Cybercultures,
Facebook,
Digital subjectivities
The general focus on a digital generational divide makes us believe that generations are separated by the digital axis, and that the gap is widening. There is a growing anxiety voiced by an older generation that the digital natives they encounter — in their homes, schools and universities and at workplaces — are a new breed with an entirely different set of vocabularies and lifestyles which are unintelligible and inaccessible. It is time we started pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a digital native.
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Chutnefying English - Report
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Nishant Shah
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Aug 27, 2009
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Aug 27, 2009 06:03 AM
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Conference,
Art,
Cybercultures,
Communities,
Digital subjectivities,
Digital Pluralism
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, was an institutional partner to India's first Global Conference on Hinglish - Chutnefying English, organised by Dr. Rita Kothari at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad. A photographic report for the event is now available here.
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Collaborative Projects Programme
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 18, 2008
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 03:04 AM
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Cyberspace,
Family,
Digital Natives,
Public Accountability,
Obscenity,
e-governance,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures,
Projects,
New Pedagogies,
Communities,
Digital subjectivities,
Digital Pluralism
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Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 15, 2011
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Apr 10, 2015 09:22 AM
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Facebook,
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Beyond the Digital,
Digital subjectivities,
Books,
Researchers at Work
Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”. This collaboratively produced collective, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, asks critical and pertinent questions about theory and practice around 'digital revolutions' in a post MENA (Middle East - North Africa) world. It works with multiple vocabularies and frameworks and produces dialogues and conversations between digital natives, academic and research scholars, practitioners, development agencies and corporate structures to examine the nature and practice of digital natives in emerging contexts from the Global South.
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Digital Natives : Talking Back
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Nishant Shah
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Aug 17, 2010
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May 15, 2015 11:50 AM
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Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Youth,
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Digital subjectivities,
Researchers at Work
One of the most significant transitions in the landscape of social and political movements, is how younger users of technology, in their interaction with new and innovative technologised platforms have taken up responsibility to respond to crises in their local and immediate environments, relying upon their digital networks, virtual communities and platforms. In the last decade or so, the digital natives, in universities as well as in work spaces, as they experimented with the potentials of internet technologies, have launched successful socio-political campaigns which have worked unexpectedly and often without precedent, in the way they mobilised local contexts and global outreach to address issues of deep political and social concern. But what do we really know about this Digital Natives revolution?
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Digital Natives at Republica 2010
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Nishant Shah
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Apr 26, 2010
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May 15, 2015 11:35 AM
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Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities,
Researchers at Work
Nishant Shah from the Centre for Internet and Society, made a presentation at the Re:Publica 2010, in Berlin, about its collaborative project (with Hivos, Netherlands) "Digital Natives with a Cause?" The video for the presentation, along with an extensive abstract is now available here.
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Digital Natives with a Cause?
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by
Nishant Shah
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Nov 12, 2009
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May 15, 2015 11:31 AM
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Digital Natives With A Cause? - a product of the Hivos-CIS collaboration charts the scholarship and practice of youth and technology with a specific attention for developing countries to create a framework that consolidates existing paradigms and informs further research and intervention within diverse contexts and cultures.
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Fill The Gap: Global Discussion on Digital Natives
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Nishant Shah
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Jan 15, 2010
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Jan 22, 2010 10:54 AM
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Social media,
Digital Activism,
Digital Governance,
Digital Natives,
Agency,
Youth,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
New Pedagogies,
Digital subjectivities,
ICT
More often than not people don't understand the new practices inspired by Internet and digital technologies. As such a series of accusations have been leveled against the Digital Natives. Educators, policy makers, scholars, and parents have all raised their worries without hearing out from the people they are concerned about. Hivos has initiated an online global discussion about Digital Natives. So, to voice your opinion, start tweeting with us now #DigitalNatives.
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i4D Interview: Social Networking and Internet Access
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by
Nishant Shah
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Oct 31, 2008
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Sep 22, 2011 12:51 PM
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Cyberspace,
Digital Natives,
Public Accountability,
Cybercultures,
Communities,
Digital subjectivities,
Digital Pluralism
Nishant Shah, the Director for Research at CIS, was recently interviewed in i4D in a special section looking at Social Networking and Governance, as a lead up to the Internet Governance Forum in December, in the city of Hyderabad.
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